PARIS : Argentina coach Michael Cheika felt his team deserved better on the night as the Pumas fell just short against England after overcoming a rough start to the bronze medal game on Friday.
Argentina made it a proper contest at Stade de France but in the end England won 26-23, having made the best of the Pumas' lapse of concentration after they scored their second try."I am disappointed with the way the whole game was run. The way the game was refereed and the consistency," Cheika said after Argentina's second defeat of this World Cup against England following their opening loss in the pool phase.
"It was fine margins. Three points. We had a charge down. We hung in there really well, I thought we fought back well," Cheika said. Asked if it was his last game in charge of the Pumas, Cheika said his future would be decided later this year. "But it's not really what I'm thinking about. I'm totally disappointed for everyone, for our crowd, for our people as I think we deserved to win tonight and for one reason or another we didn't.""We made some mistakes, some things we could not control," he said, after Argentina fell 13-0 behind.
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